News

31. May 2010

State-of-the-art corrugated plant in Poland

Mondi customers and key company representatives met last week during the grand opening ceremony for the new manufacturing plant. Today the plant in Swiecie, Poland, ranks as one of the most modern corrugated packaging plants in Europe.

“The new factory allows us to service customers with the highest quality print and support the growing demand for Shelf Ready Packaging and branding”, stated Thomas Ott, CEO Mondi Corrugated Packaging. “The additional capacity ensures shorter lead times and flexibility for our customers,” he adds  “with the in-house supply of best quality paper produced by ECO7, we can service our customers cost-efficiently as a one-stop-shop, offering the full range of corrugated packaging”.

After the ceremonial ribbon cutting all guests were invited to take part in a plant tour to take a closer look at the latest investment. EUR 45 million was invested in the corrugated packaging plant which is part of a major investment project of a EUR 350 million budget at Mondi Swiecie in Poland. This development supports Mondi’s goal of creating an integrated value chain production site, housing a recycled fibre plant, a new fast, economic and ecological lightweight recycled paper machine (ECO7), a paper warehouse and the new corrugated plant.

The combination of the new paper machine and the new corrugated plant produces unequalled quality at low substance, thus contributing to the trend for lighter and environmental-friendly packaging. The products will have an unmatched environmental benefit, as the paper production itself consumes 30% less electricity and 40% less water. Combined with the efficient in-house corrugated packaging production and reduced transport emissions, the integrated plant has overall a much lower environmental impact.

Jumbo case maker

The plant has modern technology such as a 2.8m BHS corrugator, a 6 colour Goepfert Evolution Offline Printer, a 5.5m BGM jumbo case maker and a 2.1m Bobst flatbed die-cutter. The product portfolio comprises high quality post print, large format and heavy-duty packaging as well as shelf-ready packaging.

Mondi is an international paper and packaging company, with production operations across 31 countries and revenues of €5.3 billion in 2009. The Group’s key operations are located in western and emerging Europe, Russia and South Africa and employed 31,000 people on average in 2009.